A yearly reminder: The Ralph M. Brown Act, which is codified as California Government Code sections 54950-54963, is open-meeting legislation that governs only local public agencies.Six presently active local governmental agencies on our Hill are governed by the Brown Act: the Idyllwild, Pine Cove, Fern Valley and Lake Hemet Municipal water districts, the Idyllwild Fire…

“He responds more to Dave than ‘David’,” said David Bradish, whose father ‘Dave’ Bradish has been missing from his Idyllwild home for more than a week. Monday afternoon, Nov. 26, Dave, 80, left his home and has not been seen since then. That afternoon, Dave and Linda, his wife of 58 years, were sitting on…

Why pay for circulation you don’t use — wasted ads in hundreds of thousands of daily newspapers that won’t reach folk interested in visiting our Hill. On the other hand, everyone who reads a Town Crier is obviously interested in our community — that’s focused advertising. And readers don’t toss out a Town Crier the…

In 2012, voters approved Proposition 30 that temporarily raised two types of California taxes – a quarter percent (from 7.25 to 7.5 percent) increase in state sales tax for four years, and graduated income tax hikes of one to three percent for seven years on high earners, with money raised direction to education funding. Proposition…